If there's one Linux company that has seen lots of ups and downs it's the Paris-based Mandriva S.A. They have a great distribution, but as a company, they've always been on shaky grounds. First a rumour, now confirmed: the company has put itself up for sale - which, as the community points out, isn't necessarily a bad thing.

The only company who has invested to bring linux to mainstream is Ubuntu. Thats why it succeeded more than others on this.

Wrong. Mandriva was one of the first companies to invest to bring Linux to the mainstream. Difference is that Mandriva can't even invest 1/10 of the money Mark can invest, simply because Mark is 500 times richer than Mandriva.
To say that Mandriva has never invested to bring Linux to the mainstream is 100% wrong. Mandriva is all about that since day 1.